The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HETERIC
Definition of HETERIC
adjective
Involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hetero- + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HETERIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HETERIC starts with H and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEEHIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HETERIC?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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